Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences

PIEAS provides hostel facilities for both female and male students. Most students stay there. There are eight hostel blocks including a separate female hostel, No profit no loss mess, canteen, fitness centre, rest-house, and indoor and outdoor sports facilities. A post office, bank and shops for commonly required items are available in the vicinity. A mosque is a recent addition and it is Large.

The disciplines and the degree programs offered by PIEAS have been tabulated below. The regular duration of BS and MS / M Phil degree programs is four and two years, respectively.

Discipline	Degree program
	BS	MS / M Phil	Ph.D.
Chemical Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Electrical Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Mechanical Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Metallurgy and Materials Engineering	Y	Y	Y
Mineral Resource Engineering		Y	Y
Nuclear Engineering		Y	Y
Computer and Information Sciences	Y	Y	Y
Physics	Y	Y	Y

PIEAS has around 135 full-time faculty members in the diverse fields of physical sciences, engineering and medicine. 95 of them have PhD degrees from highly reputed institutions in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, China, Japan, Austria and Australia. Another 25 faculty members were expected to complete their PhD studies during 2013 and 2014. PIEAS faculty members have published more than 650 papers in international journals and have been decorated with 3 Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 2 Tamgha-i-Imatiaz, 3 President's Pride of Performance, 1 President's Medal for Technology, 1 Aizaaz-e-Kamal, 3 Aizaaz-e-Fazeelat, and 9 Best Teacher Awards.

PIEAS is a multifaceted educational institution, with academic and training programs conducted at the highest level in a broad spectrum of disciplines. These are complemented by an active R&D program, which now also extends to working on industry-related projects. In this context, several products of industrial use, like a PC-controlled drill machine, a PC-controlled milling machine, and robotic manipulators, have been developed. Specialized systems for educational purposes, such as a PC-controlled multi-variable tank, have also been supplied to various institutions. Currently there are more than 100 doctoral candidates registered in the PhD program in Nuclear Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Medicine and Computer Science.

PIEAS's excellence was recognized on the national level when it was declared to be the best engineering university in Pakistan by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in its first ever ranking of universities in 2006. PIEAS retained this title in HEC's second ranking, carried out in 2012. The university was ranked as the top engineering institute of Pakistan by the HEC in the "engineering and technology" category, as of 2013.[3] QS World University Rankings ranked the institute top in Pakistan and 106th in Asia in 2014.[12] QS World University Rankings ranked the institute fifth in Pakistan and 146th in Asia in 2016. In 2017, according to PEC rankings, PIEAS tops the list.

PIEAS has active links with reputed universities in developed countries, which have been very helpful for the excellent development of PIEAS's PhD program. Role of PIEAS during COVID is also notable Pakistan institute of engineering and applied sciences with the help of POF made CORVENT named Ventilator.It was Pakistan's first indigenous developed ventilator

There are zero functioning societies presently working at PIEAS under SADiv. The main office bearers of these societies were elected from the student body. Nevertheless, links between the members of these societies and the corresponding in charge from faculty used to be maintained for coordination. These groups used to include PIEAS Performing Arts Society, PIEAS Literary Society, PIEAS Thematic Society, PIEAS Media Club, , PIEAS Volunteer Society, Society for Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Leadership, PIEAS Debating Society, PIEAS Sportics Society and PIEAS Blood Donors Society. There were also a few sports clubs and student chapters of IEEE.

Nukta used to be an annual inter-university event held under the collaboration of both PIEAS PERFORMING ARTS and PDS. It consisted of competitions in Dramatics, Shortfilms and Declamations. Six editions of Nukta had been held with NUKTA'19 being the latest.

PIEAS Literary Society has been writing quarterly newsletters by the name of Zeest since the fall of 2013 and yearly magazines by the name Dareecha since 2012. Both these publications are available in a PDF format from the official website of PIEAS,[13] whereas only the annual magazine's hard copy is distributed among the students.